Athana Chronicles

May/June Release - Daragaard Part One

Added 2024-07-05 15:08:02 +0000 UTC

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Hello everyone!

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Finally!!!

We’ve shifted it from ‘May’ to ‘June’ release with us being a month behind - with us making the templates, gauging the length, and committing to what we originally said would be in the first release - boy was it a lot! The first full PDF is 102 pages long! 102!! And even though this is ‘part one’ of three, I anticipate we’ve actually completed about 40% of the content and have heavily loaded the lore at the start of the split! But that’s fine, we’ve all learned something for this experience!

A quick reminder on how this works - we offer TWO types of releases ‘Settings’ and ‘Adventures’ (sometimes referred to as chronicles). A ‘Setting’ release (like this one) is comparable in style, length and content to a ‘Guide to Wildemount’ or another 5e setting book like that. They are there to (when they’re finished) give you absolutely everything you need to be able to run a campaign, adventure, or whatever you desire within that setting. This includes lore, history, guilds and factions, NPCs, all that good stuff. An ‘Adventure’ will be a one and done, one month release BASED in one of the ‘settings’ we have produced. So less focused on the lore, the factions and all that side of things, and more on the story - actual full one everything you would need to run that exact adventure (in Athana or elsewhere). But of course, as we promised an offering every month of Battlemaps, magical items, monsters, spells and character options - all of these are in BOTH settings, AND adventures, so really the only effected tier by the difference between the two types of release are the Chronicle Keepers. So join them if you want in on all the fun stuff!

Now onto the aforementioned fun stuff...

Monsters - VTT ready, portrait and Topdown

Not coming as a surprise due to the fact I pushed out all of this stuff a little ago, we have five monsters in this release - all have been tried and tested on Roll20 and VTT!

Quick Quests - Two Adventures, Four New Battlemaps

We have put together two adventures based in Daragaard in this release - and though we say that, we make our ‘Quick Quests’ as such that you can put them ANYWHERE. They’re intended to last a session (or two, actually.. You know maybe even 5 if you’re my players, and one would end up married) and you’re provided with dialogue, scene setting, environmental and exploration tips and roll tables, loot, encounters, scripts, it’s basically plug and play adventures - you need a quick side quest cause you haven’t prepped DM (tut tut), well we got you, why not try ‘The Alchemy’ or ‘Making the West Coast Run’ from this release and letting us know!

Daragaard Setting History, Lore, Factions and Compendium

Of course as a Setting release, we have around 40 pages of lore for you, this one is more based around Daragaard itself as opposed to Athana in general (which is coming), this looks into Daragaard's history, the current lay of the political landscape, some of the factions and the guilds, and then a tour around Central Daragaard and Province Sinkala - as generally is the theme of this part. Next release is Rellek and Roheline!

Magical Items - Weapons, Armours & gadgets!

We have 15 magical items in this release, they range from uncommon through to legendary - but watch this space for more athana-specific items such as the Celestial Vetsiges and the Corestones of Reality (and more!?)

Spells - Four new spells, cards included!

Though we’ve left Animancy at home for this release, we’ve dipped our toes into the rest of the weave with 4 different (though quote thematic) spells for you, playtested, enjoyed!

Sinkalan Player Options

Heavily water focused, we have some player options for you! A subrace, two subclasses, feats and backgrounds! You’ll fit right in!

Again - SORRY about the delay in this first release - looking forwards, now we have our templates, our pipeline and backgrounds etc, we’re going to be hitting those monthly releases (though expect them to be shorter - probably between 60-80 pages). Daragaard part 2 is going to be based in Province Rellek and Province Roheline, where we’ll have new items, weapons, monsters, and quests ready for you! Provisional release date is 3-4 weeks from now! 26th July or 2nd August!

I love you guys! I hope you enjoy our first proper release and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, give us feedback - you like something and want more? Great! You don’t like something and want it less? Also great! We just want to do what we love and give you guys a space where you can pick up and play!